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Some people spend the rest of their lives listening only to the stuff that was big when they were 18......


Words cannot convey how sorry I feel for them.

 

 

I know you're half- joking, but 16 to 18 is when people wstablish a personality that is different than their parents, and start to develop their own tastes. Now, it is still largely shaped by their peers, but the music you listened to when you were 18 are usually the first things you picked completely on your own, and therefore have a large sentimental value to you.

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Yeah, but a lot of people stick with that two year period's worth of music for the rest of their lives, and never add anything new to it. It's the never-adding-anything-new part that's the depressing element. There are people who will be listening to the same music when they're 85 and in a nursing home.

 

Though, I'd rather take a lawn dart to my ear drums than add PA broadcasts of Journey to the misery of bedpans and arthritis.....

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Yeah, but a lot of people stick with that two year period's worth of music for the rest of their lives, and never add anything new to it.

 

True, but some people are idiots, and as Ron White reminds us, you can't fix stupid. :D

 

MOST of us old farts listen to the new stuff too, and dig some Kings of Leon, or Jimmy Eat World, and dig some Far East Movement, and think Eminem has really come into his own, but every now and then just have to play "Renegade" or "Don't stop Believing" and sing at the top of our lungs!

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Line dances...

They LOVE line dances...


WHY???

 

 

 

For the same reason as anybody else who likes line dancing. It's so they can be self-congratulatory, saying...

 

 

Look at us!

We're all doing the VERY SAME THING!

At the VERY SAME TIME!!!

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Yeah, but a lot of people stick with that two year period's worth of music for the rest of their lives, and never add anything new to it. It's the never-adding-anything-new part that's the depressing element. There are people who will be listening to the same music when they're 85 and in a nursing home.


Though, I'd rather take a lawn dart to my ear drums than add PA broadcasts of Journey to the misery of bedpans and arthritis.....

 

 

Well, first off, I don't know anybody that only listens to a two year time period of music. If you had said a decade I might buy that. But even if you were right and it's two years here's the list of songs that would be playing on your favorite current hits radio station on any given day (and remember these would all be CURRENT songs all out in the same year).

 

Joy to the World, Three Dog Night

Maggie May, Rod Stewart

It's Too Late/I Feel the Earth Move, Carole King

How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?, Bee Gees

Take Me Home, Country Roads, John Denver

Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me), Temptations

Knock Three Times, Dawn

Me and Bobby McGee, Janis Joplin

You've Got a Friend, James Taylor

Brown Sugar, Rolling Stones

Do You Know What I Mean, Lee Michaels

The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, Joan Baez

Ain't No Sunshine, Bill Withers

Signs, Five Man Electrical Band

She's a Lady, Tom Jones

Temptation Eyes, The Grass Roots

Superstar, Carpenters

My Sweet Lord / Isn't It a Pity, George Harrison

Put Your Hand In the Hand, Ocean

Help Me Make It Through the Night, Sammi Smith

Rainy Days and Mondays, Carpenters

If You Could Read My Mind, Gordon Lightfoot

Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves, Cher

Don't Pull Your Love, Hamilton, Joe Frank and Reynolds

It Don't Come Easy, Ringo Starr

Mr. Bojangles, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be, Carly Simon

If You Really Love Me, Stevie Wonder

Spanish Harlem, Aretha Franklin

I Don't Know How to Love Him, Helen Reddy

Proud Mary, Ike and Tina Turner

Beginnings/Color My World, Chicago

Sweet City Woman, Stampeders

If, Bread

One Toke Over the Line, Brewer and Shipley

I Just Want to Celebrate, Rare Earth

Wild World, Cat Stevens

When You're Hot, You're Hot, Jerry Reed

Won't Get Fooled Again, Who

Love Her Madly, The Doors

Riders On the Storm, The Doors

It's Impossible, Perry Como

 

The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, Roberta Flack

Alone Again (Naturally), Gilbert O'Sullivan

American Pie, Don McLean

Without You, Nilsson

Lean On Me, Bill Withers

Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me, Mac Davis

Brandy (You're A Fine Girl), Looking Glass

Heart of Gold, Neil Young

Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress), Hollies

A Horse With No Name, America

Everybody Plays the Fool, Main Ingredient

Last Night I Didn't Get to Sleep At All, 5th Dimension

Nights In White Satin, Moody Blues

Go All the Way, Raspberries

Too Late to Turn Back Now, Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose

Sunshine (Go Away Today), Jonathan Edwards

Day After Day, Badfinger

Rocket Man, Elton John

Rockin' Robin, Michael Jackson

Morning Has Broken, Cat Stevens

The City Of New Orleans, Arlo Guthrie

I Can See Clearly Now, Johnny Nash

Burning Love, Elvis Presley

Hold Your Head Up, Argent

Bang a Gong (Get It On), T. Rex

Mother and Child Reunion, Paul Simon

Layla, Derek and The Dominos

63. Black and White, Three Dog Night

You Don't Mess Around With Jim, Jim Croce

Hot Rod Lincoln, Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen

Anticipation, Carly Simon

Never Been to Spain, Three Dog Night

Kiss an Angel Good Morning, Charlie Pride

School's Out, Alice Cooper

Saturday In the Park, Chicago

Roundabout, Yes

Doctor My Eyes, Jackson Browne

I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony), New Seekers

I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing, Hillside Singers

 

Now, you may or may not like all or any of these songs, but look at the variety of styles/genres that were getting played all on the same radio station. From Perry Como to Led Zeplin. Charlie Pride to Alice Cooper

 

1973 brought "Crockadile Rock", "American Band", "Frankenstein", "Drift Away", "Sunshine of My Life", "Superstition", "Loves Me Like A Rock", "Dancing In The Moonlight", "Long Train Running", "Daniel", "Smoke On The Water", "Reelin' In The Years", "Do It Again", "Ramblin Man", "Angie", "Money (Pink Floyd)",

 

All these songs are from 1971 - 1973. I was 17/18 and it was my senior year in High School and the year after.

 

I personally don't listen to much of the music listed here (from when I was 18, I listen to more later 70's and 80's music then anything else.

 

 

But, back then, any two year period produced more great music then the last two DECADES have. Perhaps that's why we/they seem stuck in the past and I don't think there's anything to be sorry about. In fact, I feel sorry for you if you didn't experience it.

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